Jug

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

The neck and body of this slender, spoutless jug were wheel-turned separately. The maker combed in the horizontal grooves and lines while the vessel was on the wheel and worked the handle and the weighty pinched foot by hand. The creamy, unglazed surface is typical of medieval stoneware produced in Siegburg, near Cologne, using the abundant local clay, which is nearly white. Siegburg ceramics were widely exported to the Netherlands and British Isles.

Medieval Art and The Cloisters

An exhibit at Metropolitan Museum of Art

The Museum's collection of medieval and Byzantine art is among the most comprehensive in the world. Displayed in both The Met Fifth Avenue and in the Museum's branch in northern Manhattan, The Met Cloisters, the collection encompasses the art of the Mediterranean and Europe from the fall of Rome in the fourth century to the beginning of the Renaissance in the early sixteenth century. It also includes pre-medieval European works of art created during the Bronze Age and early Iron Age.

Metropolitan Museum of Art